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Featuring The City Club of Cleveland's Friday Forum and other City Club events. Established to encourage new ideas and a free exchange of thought, this is the oldest continuous free speech forum in the country, renowned for its tradition of debate and discussion.
Each Forum is an hour long program. The program starts with a brief introduction followed by a 25-30 minute address by the speaker. Spirited, insightful and often challenging questions from the audience fill the final half hour of the program.

Featuring The City Club of Cleveland's Friday Forum and other City Club events. Established to encourage new ideas and a free exchange of thought, this is the oldest continuous free speech forum in the country, renowned for its tradition of debate and discussion.
Each Forum is an hour long program. The program starts with a brief introduction followed by a 25-30 minute address by the speaker. Spirited, insightful and often challenging questions from the audience fill the final half hour of the program.

Featuring The City Club of Cleveland's Friday Forum and other City Club events. Established to encourage new ideas and a free exchange of thought, this is the oldest continuous free speech forum in the country, renowned for its tradition of debate and discussion.
Each Forum is an hour long program. The program starts with a brief introduction followed by a 25-30 minute address by the speaker. Spirited, insightful and often challenging questions from the audience fill the final half hour of the program.

Episodes

The goal of the value-based care model is to lower healthcare costs and improve quality and outcomes for patients. Now, despite bipartisan support, the future of the Affordable Care Act is uncertain. Dr. Farzad Mostashari explains.

Gaps in education for low-income and minority children result in limited economic opportunities in adulthood. Policies like No Child Left Behind try to correct this imbalance. John B. King, Jr., discusses the progress being made.

The final two mayoral candidates, Mayor Frank G. Jackson and Councilman Zack Reed, explain their platforms and differences and why they deserve your vote in a debate moderated by ideastream® senior host/producer Rick Jackson.

Philip Lelyveld, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Project Lead, USC Entertainment Technology Center; Kimberly Culp, Counsel, Venable LLP; and Jarryd Huntley, Software Development Instructor, We Can Code IT, and Adjunct Professor, Computer Games and Simulation Design, Lorain County Community College, discuss the rise of virtual and augmented realities and how virtual experiences are changing our world in a conversation moderated by Patrick Kabat, Adjunct Professor of Law of the Case...

Eric S. Gordon, CEO, Cleveland Metropolitan School District, delivers his annual State of the Schools address with a focus on the priorities and challenges as The Cleveland Plan enters its second phase.

Nicole Isaac, Head of U.S. Public Policy at LinkedIn, talks with Michael Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, on how LinkedIn is creating new economic opportunities for workers.

Wesley Lowery, reporter for The Washington Post and author of “They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement,” speaks about the ongoing struggle between law enforcement, race and justice.

Mike Brickner, Senior Policy Director, ACLU of Ohio; Maurice A. Stinnett, Ed.D., Vice President of University Engagement and Chief Diversity Officer, Cleveland State University; and Jessica Kelley, Professor, Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, speak on affirmative action and the future of college admissions policies in a City Club Youth Forum panel conversation moderated by Youth Forum Council President TiOlu Oresanya.

Saleh Awadallah, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor; The Honorable Michael P. Donnelly, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court; Vicki Ward, Defense Attorney; and Timothy Young, Director, Office of the Ohio Public Defender, speak about the plea process and whether it can be reformed in a conversation moderated by The Honorable John J. Russo, Presiding and Administrative Judge in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

Cleveland mayoral primary candidates Eric Brewer, Brandon E. Chrostowski, Mayor Frank G. Jackson, Jeff Johnson, Robert Kilo, Tony Madalone, Bill Patmon, Zack Reed, and Dyrone Smith explain their platforms and differences during a debate moderated by ideastream® senior host/producer Rick Jackson. The top two finishers in the September 12 primary will advance to the general election on November 7.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley and The Honorable John J. Russo, Presiding and Administrative Judge in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, discuss current efforts to reform Cuyahoga County’s criminal justice system in a conversation moderated by WKYC news anchor Russ Mitchell.

Brian Payne, President and CEO of the Central Indiana Community Foundation and civic champion of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, discusses the relationship between multimodal transportation, livability, connectivity, and talent attraction and retention.